The Russellville Democrat., 1887-03-09

"Sec. T. Inc secretary Suuii hNSp
such books as the society may need,
and perform all such duties as are
| incumbent on such Office.
"Sec. 5. The officers of the society
shall constitute the executive com
mittee, whose duty shall be to ex-
ecute all orders Of the society.
"Sec. O. Any alterations or amend
ments can be made by two thirds
vote at regular meeting Of the SO
ciety.
~. p. EAGLE.
"GILBERT KNAPP.
zach BAKER."
| Col. Eagle stated that one of the
difficult questions before the com
mittee was to provide who shall be
members. There are members OF
certain farmers organizations in
some counties who would feel az liD-
erty to attend such an annual meet
ing as is provided for. Then there
are other organizations whose mem
bers would attend. Therefore we
thought it hes. TO make the provis-
! ion as found in the constitution. We
did not think 1T best to provide that
every meeting be held at Little
Rock. Therefore we provided that
each annual meeting should arrange
for the place for the next meeting to
be held.
The report was unanimously
| adopted.
THE HUGHES RESOLUTIONS.
The resolutions presented by Gov.
Hughes were read and adopted.
Col. b. ID. Williams moved that
the resolutions De published. Car
RED.
Prof. Purinton, chairman of the
committee on compost, submitted the
following report:
Mr.. President--We your commit
tee on compost. beg leave to report
that we recommend as partial re
port for present use the formula Of
Furman and Newman suited TO up
lands and bottom lands in the pro-
ductlon OF cotton. We also respect
fully request that additional time be
allowed the committee to further
formulate more exact report which
shall be published and distributed
among the members Of the associa
ton. Respectfully,
GEO. ID. PURINToN,
ID. w. BozzELL,
FSIGNED w. S. Brooks,
w. z. ROBERTSON.
Prof Purington also read the fol-
lowing explanations of the two for
mulas proposed.
FERTILIZERS.
Furman's formula ls-Barn yard
manure and cotton seed, each thirty
bushels; acid phosphate, 400 pounds;
kainit, 200 pounds; mix intimately
at once, or put in alternate layers of
cotton seed I'd phosphate and kainit,
Sd, manure. Repeat these layers.
The seed be well moistened, and in
the latter case mix by cutting en-
tirely through from top to bottom.
1t should be in pens with perpen-
dicular sides and at least four feet
thick and covered over with a layer
of rich earth six inches thick, it Will
need no roof. 1t will be ready for
use in from four to eight weeks and
must be used as soon as ready to
prevent loss.
Newman's formula $500 pounds
acid phosphate; $50 pounds each
cotton seed and stable manure green.
Treat as above. This is a cheap
compost and very valuable. On old
clayey lands especially either of
those is perhaps preferable to any
formula in which cotton seed meal
is substituted for the seed The
reason why the crude seed are bet
ter than the meal is that the former
produces humus of which some land
is destitute.
The report was adopted. and the
committee was granted further time
to prepare report, which report
shall be forwarded to the president
of this convention, and he to have |
it published as part of the proceed
ings of this meeting.
TRANSPORTATION.
Mr. S. Ii. Nowlin submitted the |
report of the committee on transpor-
tation, the same report that was re-
committed to it, with the commits,
sion feature stricken out.
Col. j. p. Eagle stated that this
convention did not propose TO die.
tate to the legislature what partcu-
lar Legislation shall be had buG to
express the hope that the legislature
would pass some law that would pre-
vent the evils complained of, and at
the same time do justice to all con-
cerned.
Col. B. d. Williams indorsed the
resolution. He believed that some
kind of Legislation shoud be had,
but he did not think this convention
could afford to say that commits
sion is needed.
Hon. Mr.. Hudgins of Boone in
dorsed the resolution as changed.
He had an idea that he would be
called upon TO meet such resolution
but when he found an effort to oct